St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-23
JOHN sULLIVAN's MANAGER
Stories About Pat sheedy and His
Early Gambling DAYS.

| 'SSOA ASo <AOO1S E1IlccuY ana III
Early Gambling Days.
Cincinnati Enquirer
Pat Sheedy, the enterprising manager
of John l.. Sullivan, was at one time the
| prince of gamblers. He was known
far and wide by reason of his big trans
actions on the green baize. Faro was
his faVorite game, and for years he ran
one OF the most fashionable games i'm
chicago. Although most of the time
he was behind the check rack he would
every once in a while don his
a hand-tO-hand encounter with the
tiger" Whenever he put On his war
paint the proprietOrs of rival banks
knew that it was either a case of 90
broke or make big winning. Sheedy
was high roller in all the name i'm
plied, he never '.piked' around with
small bets. With him it was lose all the
ready money he possessed or make the
G Geaf TURN up his box. There was no
halfway point with him. He always
bet up to the limit and would be better
satisfied If the dealer took off all re-
strlctions and allowed him to put down
all his money on the single turn of a
| card. "
Sheedy has given up the life of a sport
I0r all time to come. He says he found
mere was nothing in the business, and
therefore quit it. He, like all gamblers,
mas had his ups and downs in life. He
has been worth as high as $500. GOO AFT
one time, but has frequently been com
| pelled to borrow the price of meal.
he is protege of Canada Bill. the most
famous three-card monte man who ever
| IlYed. he took Pat under his charge
when he was but lad and drilled him
In the fine art of throwing three cards.
Iat alq not SUCK to this kind of skin
game, but at once branched out as a Ie-
gltlmate gambler. He-is a Jolly, whole
souled fellow, free Spender, and man
whose word is good for thousands of dol
lars whenever he wants to borrow. He
always makes it point to pay all his
debts whenever he is in luck. For that
| reason he has host Of friends and can
produce" at any time.
VI course many interesting stories are
toid or the man. Among them are sev-
eral tnat are worth repeating, In 1888
Sheedy was In partnership with Charlie
Bush, the well-known gambler, and an
other sport. They were running very
| prosperous game in Chicago. Sheedy
besides was bucking against all the
other games in town. He struck an un-
usual bad ruE of luck, and in thirty DAYS
dumped over 100000 into the Golfers of
the rival banks. Finally it came to the
point where he was down to his last dol
lar. He kept playing, however, and
| put up marker for $4,000 with the
owner of the game. This left Pat in a
dilemma. Twenty thousand dollars was
just the size of the bank-roll possessed
by himself and partners in their own
| game. Pat debated in his mind quite a
time what course would be best to pur
sue; whether he would let the owner of
the rival bank wait for his money or
draw out the bankeroll belonging to
himself and partners and pay it off. He
decided on the last course, and drew a
check on national bank for $4,000.
and the roll was passed over to the
hands of the rival game. Pat stayed up
all night, and the next morning at II
O'Clock was at his place of business.
Il see no use to open up" said Sheedy
to one of his partners
''Why not?" the latter INQUIRED.
Because we can't do business"
whats to prevent uS?"
ION, nothing; only | have blown I'm
the bank.roll, and there is no use to try
to do business without money"
1.-The III you have?" was his part
ner's only retort.
Pat went out on the street with bad
case of blues. Finally he thought of a
man in Cincinnati who owed him 81 500.
and he resolved to come TO the Queen
City. He came, saw the man and got
$500 from him. At the time he made
the visit the first race meeting ever held
at Latonia was in full blast. The town
was wide open" and several big race
games were running. One of the big
geSt was owned by Jim Crawford, an
SO Fifth street. and Sheedy began to
play against him with his $500 roll. In
two days play he, with the assistance
of Eli Marks, Louisville gambler.
made the dealer close up shop, and
Crawford q Co. were out $4,000. OF
this amount Sheedy took $1,000 and
Marks $4,000. His success in this city
gave him courage, and from here he
went to New York, where he won So
600 more. With this money he returned
to Chicago. restored the bank-roll. and
for two years more remained in partner
ship with the same man.
Jere Dunn, the murderer of Jimmy
Elliott, the prize-fghter, accompanied
Sheedy on this trip. 1t will be remem-
bered that Sheedy did more than any
one else to get Dunn out of the Elliott
Scrape.
what have you to say about Dump,
was asked of Sheedy yesterday.
''Nota thing. He served me a good trick
once when | needed friend, and tried
to repay it when he got in the trouble
with Elliott. L spent my time and
money,to get him out of it, and did no
more than | ought to, because it was
only repaying an old score"
'How much money have you won in
one Sitting?'
"Twenty-siX thousand dollars is the
largest money l ever took off i'm one
nights play. L did that in Chicago Inf
1t did not all come out of faro bank.
| was making side bets with Hayerly'
the minstrel man, at the same time, and
between the two made the Doodle
just named."
Sheedy has an enormous head. He
wears IA hat, and has to have his hats
made to order. One time during his
visit to Cincinnati ne was bothered with
a bore. The fellow in question was a
little Chicago lawyer, who followed
Sheedy about from place to place
wherever l walked he walked. and
wherever ate he was sure to do the same
thing" was Sneedy's description of him.
The latter was endeavoring to get rid of
him, but could think of no way of doing
it. Finally, one day in Sullivan's Vine
street sample room an argument came
threw themselves into the breach. They
argued long and loud, and as Sheedy
had the best side and is good talker. he
made the lawyer look ridiculous. The
latter was considerably crestfallen
by being beaten by sport,
and as he stood around with his
head hanging down Sheedv toolS
occasion to emphasize his defeat The
lawyer had an unusually small head
and Sheedy opened on him by SAVING.
Now, when beat man at my game
always like to show him what odds he
mas been playing against. You are no